Combination-tool.



. PATENTEDYAUGH 1a, 1903.

0. w. REYNOLDS. COMBINATION TOOL. APPLICATION FILED JULY 6, 190B.

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COMBINATION-T001 a citizen of the United States, residing at Meriden, inthe county of New Haven and t'ate of Connecticut, have invented a newand useful Improvement in Combinationiools; and l'do hereby declare thefollowing,

when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the lettersof reference marked thereon, to be a description of the same, and whichsaid drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, iii-Figure 1 a view in side elevation of a combination tool constructed inaccordance with my invention. Fig 2 a plaf view thereof. Fig. 3 anenlarged sectional view on the line o of Fig. 1-. Fig. 4 a view in sideelevation of oneof the modifiedforms which the device may assume. Fig. 5a broken plan view thereof.

My invention relates to animproved combination tool of the type designedto provide for opening sheet-metal cans and for uncork-' ing andnncapping bottles, the object being to produce a simple, convenient,durable and effective combination tool constructed with particularreference to lightness and strength.

In carrying outmy invention as herein shown, I employ bentto form ahollow shank 4 of the device, the axis of the said fulcrum 3 beinglocated at a right angle to the axis of the handle 2 and shank 4..VVithin the handle 2 I locate a at one end with an eye fulcrum 3 andthe inward from the"parallel sides of the shank. This cork-screw)rovidcs for extracting ordinary corks from bottles. For openingsheetmetal cans I provide a knife 8 extending under the fulcrum 3 andslightly beyond the same and having a plate 9 offset from it at a rightangle and inserted between the portions STATES.

QR MERIDEN GONNEOTIGUT, AfsSlGNOR TO THE BROWNE &

O1 MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

full, clear, and exact a heavy sheet-metal strap.

cork-screw 5 formed 6 enteringcneenrkof the shank 4 and receivingtrunnions 7 struck PTNT OFFICE Down )- iatented Aug. 18, 1908.

Application filed Jul 6,1908. SerialNo. 142,030.

of the sheet-metal strap, these ends forming one side of the shank 4.The rivets 10 pass through the plate 12 as shown, whereby the said platewith its uncapping hook 11, the shank 9 of the knife 8 and thoseportions of the strap lving' between the handle 2 and the fulcrum 3larerigidly bound together. The device is therefore reinforced at itsWeakest point which will be found in the shank as the ends of the strapforming the handle and the fulcrum must be abutted in the shank in-aconstruction iike that shown in which. the strap is bent to becontinuous in the handle and fulcrum.

' In" the modified construction shown by Fi 4 the rinci )le followed isthe same, the

eing that the uncappingto project from the same 16 and is placed onlydifferencehook 15 is arranged side of the device as the knife on theopposite side of the shank from the abutting edges of the strap, anddoes not therefore actually cover by such abutment though it reinforcesandstiffens the shank. p v

I claim In a combination tool for opening sheetmetal cans and removingcorks and caps from bottles, the coml 'nation with a sheet metal strapbent to form a hollow handle, a hollow fulcrum and a shank locatedbetween the said handle and fulcrum, the ends of the strap being abuttedon one, side of the said shank; of a cork-screw located in the saidhollow handle, a knife located below the said fulcrum and extendingbeyond the same "and formed with a plate WlrlC'lYiS interposed betweenthe portions of the strap forming t1; said shank, an uncappiw je kformed with'a plate, a plied to the "outside of the said shank, anrivets passing transversely through the plate of the knife, through theplate of the hook and through the said shank, the said rivets beinglocated on opposite sides of the joint formed by abutting the ends ofthe strap in forming the shank. I

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses HENRY T. K ne,

CHAs. S. PALMEp.

the joint produced

